AT&T reports that it saw 15 million Wi-Fi connections during the second quarter 2009 and 26 million in the first half of 2009. That compares to 20 million connections across all of 2008.
In an interesting finding, AT&T said 49 percent of the connections were made by integrated devices or smartphones, a 41 percent increase over the first quarter 2009. This coincides with a new automatic Wi-Fi authentication for iPhone 3.0 devices in June, which tripled Wi-Fi connections.
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